Choice Voting is an election system in which voters get to rank the candidates they like in order--instead of bulleting 6. This gives voters more say and more power.

Choice Voting for President (IRV)

Instant runoff voting produces a majority outcome for President in just one election. It achieves this by letting voters rank the candidates.

Before Choice Voting, ASUCD often held two separate elections to get a majority outcome. There was a first election, and then a second runoff election a week later. This took up a lot of extra time, money, labor, and resources.

Choice Voting for Senate (STV)

With Choice Voting, nearly every voter gets to elect a candidate they support to the ASUCD Senate. This makes the ASUCD Senate an accurate cross-section of the voters, so that the Senate's decisions reflect student opinion.

Choice Voting achieves this using a special counting method. Voters indicate their choice by ranking the candidates in order. Votes are never wasted in the ballot count, because your vote transfers at full value to your next choice if your highest choice gets eliminated.

Other Schools

UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, Caltech, Stanford, Sonoma State, Duke, Harvard, Cornell, MIT, and many other schools use Choice Voting along with UC Davis.
Here is a more complete listing of schools using Choice Voting.